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| Manxmodder:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 04, 2015, 05:17:42 PM ---Nope, It all goes into one big pot. So, what is the shape of things to come ? I suspect that the price of Diesel, already on the increase, will get exorbitantly high in the next five year. If you have a diesel car then the emission tests will get tougher. New Diesels will gradually be phased out and the tax on your old one will get higher. The glory days of fuel economy are over. Prepare to return to 35 mpg. Bullet proof reliability, half a million miles engine life, is out, damp spark ignition systems are back in. But if you keep your Diesel and run it on bio then you may just be able to buck the system. Bio bootleggers will pick on their banjos whilst watching the kettles boil. All together now... Daddy ran his bio in a big black Dodge. Bought it in an auction at the mason's lodge. Dave :thumbup: --- End quote --- You could smell the bio burnin' down on chip shop road :) Great tune,Steve Earle's finest creation......OZ. |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 04, 2015, 05:35:28 PM ---Mike, The latter. It always works that way. :( Moving the topic on. Anyone for electric cars ? Or the half way house of petrol/electric hybrids. Prius etc ? Anybody got one ? Dave. --- End quote --- Only ever been a passenger in a Prius but i've never experienced motion sickness like it. I'm not sure if it was just the odd feeling of the almost silent engine and the unusually high dashboard. I think I heard that newer hybrids play engine sounds through a speaker so it's less weird. |
| modeng200023:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 04, 2015, 04:36:22 PM ---MODENG, But what year is it ? Dave. --- End quote --- 2014 I can't afford to run an old one :scratch: |
| Pete W.:
Hi there, Swarfing, --- Quote from: Swarfing on May 04, 2015, 06:52:39 PM ---SNIP ....... and it still cost the environment. I'm sure we are all aware by now the need to produce clean energy argument, yadda yadda yadda so no debate there. SNIP ....... and governments grabbing as much tax as they can until the bitter end.........greasy palms and all that I will now get off my soapbox, put down the wine glass and go to bed...sigh! --- End quote --- For an interesting perspective on this subject, I suggest you read a book called 'Not For Greens' by Ian Plimer. (He's a professor of geology.) That one's a paperback. If you can afford a bit more time, he also wrote a more substantial book called 'Heaven and Earth'. |
| Swarfing:
Pete I'm assuming the reading is regarding the affects on the earth? I have no argument there just false claims from governments about being green when they only have one foot in scenario. The point I was making is we cannot have our cake and eat it. Just feel they should be honest about all this, we are either green or not? I love petrol/ diesel cars just not at the expense of my kids future, if they have one? too much red tape and economics (taxes) play far too much in the equation and hold people back from striving for a greener future. |
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